infrastructure failure

A preliminary report into last month’s funicular crash in Lisbon that killed 16 people has detailed a litany of failings. Portugal’s Air and Rail Accident Investigations Bureau said an underground cable – which acted as a counterweight between two carriages and broke, causing the crash – was defective and had never been certified for passenger […]

The cable that snapped on the Lisbon funicular, causing a crash that killed 16 people, was not certified for use in public transport, an official investigation has found. Three Britons were among the dead after a carriage derailed, careered down a steep hill and ploughed into the side of a hotel in the heart of the Portuguese capital last […]